Habitat - Open grasslands, sometimes with a few small trees or bushes.

Water and climate - Drink morning and evening. Seem to tolerate hear adequately.

Temperament and compatibility - Typically not aggressive toward humans in open range situations. Young strongly motivated to stay with mother. Male territorial during breeding season. Territorial male stands by - or lies on - huge, central dung pile, fights other males, and gathers and courts females as herds pass through is territory. Herd male may kill yearling male if with a confined herd. Sometimes may even kill a neonate. Hybridize with closely related bontebok and produce fertile offspring that resembly bontebok.